Video On Trial
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| Video On Trial | |
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 Video On Trial logo |
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| Genre | Comedy Critique |
| Running time | 30 Minutes |
| Starring | Various Judges |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original channel | MuchMusic |
| Original run | August 15, 2005–present |
| No. of episodes | 46 (as of November 11, 2006) |
Video On Trial (abbreviated as VOT) is a half-hour MuchMusic television program where a panel of musicians, comedians and entertainment columnists critique music videos.
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[edit] About Video On Trial
[edit] Show Structure
The concept of the show is to put a set of five music videos in a fictional court-room with five comedians acting as the jurors; they poke fun of and question each artist's behaviour in each video. Also, artists' personal lives and off-set behaviour are mocked by the critics in relation to the music video.
In the conclusion of the TV program, humorous "verdicts" are given to the artists which most often relate to them in real-life. (For example, in the first episode, Weezer and their video for "Beverly Hills" were sentenced to "an extremely juvenile detention centre").
[edit] About The Accused Videos
Most of the videos featured are generally recent, with at least one of the five videos per episode still being in rotation. Older videos are still featured, though, mostly those from the early '00s, and popular videos from 1997 to 1999 have been played on rare occasions.
An exception to the above was a recent special edition of VOT, called "Totally '80s Video On Trial," that featured classic 1980s videos by Cyndi Lauper, Wham!, Madonna, Van Halen, and Michael Jackson. In addition, the jury was dressed up in 1980s-styled clothing, and the blackish background behind them was replaced with various neon colours.
Oddly enough, despite being aired on a Canadian music network, only five of the featured videos so far were made by Canadian artists (ones by Massari, Shawn Desman, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, and Tom Green), which has brought up a few complaints from some fans.
[edit] Jurors
Some jurors make multiple appearances on the show, and the ones who appear most often are generally Canadian stand-up comedians, including (alphabetically) Nicole Arbour, Trevor Boris, Debra DiGiovanni, Dini Dimakos, Sabrina Jalees, Ron Josol, David Kerr, Alex Nussbaum, Nikki Payne, Ron Sparks and Fraser Young. By contrast, some judges make just one appearance and never return.
The following have all appeared as a juror at least once:
[edit] Verdicts
| Accused | Song | Verdict |
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| 30 Seconds To Mars | The Kill | Sentenced to watch every episode of "Full House" and wonder which Olsen twin is being used in each scene featuring Michelle Tanner. |
| 50 Cent | 21 Questions | ??? |
| 50 Cent | Candy Shop | Sentenced to "fiddy" whips by a video chicken. |
| 50 Cent feat. Snoop Dogg | P.I.M.P. | Sentenced to notify Snoop that he's less of a P.I.M.P. and more of a W.I.M.P. |
| 50 Cent | Window Shopper | ??? |
| AFI | Girl's Not Grey | Sentenced to reveal that A.F.I. stands for "Audio For Idiots". |
| AFI | Miss Murder | Sentenced to stop giving their hand-me-downs to Jared Leto. |
| Afroman | Because I Got High | ??? |
| Christina Aguilera | Ain't No Other Man | Sentenced to let archeologists "dig for face" beneath her thousands of layers of pancake make-up. |
| Christina Aguilera | Can't Hold Us Down | Sentenced to notify the local water filtration plant whenever she showers. |
| Christina Aguilera | Dirrty | ??? |
| Christina Aguilera | Fighter | Sentenced to save her career through re-skankification. |
| a-ha | Take On Me | Sentenced to hire a sketch artist to draw themselves a new career. |
| Akon feat. Eminem | Smack That | Sentenced to stop bogarting Eminem's talent. |
| Alien Ant Farm | Smooth Criminal | Sentenced to realize that rock and comedy go together about as well as Tara Reid and proportionate breasts. |
| The All-American Rejects | Dirty Little Secret | Sentenced to disappear from people's IPods within the month. |
| Arctic Monkeys | When the Sun Goes Down | ??? |
| Audioslave | Doesn't Remind Me | Sentenced to continue watching "Murder She Wrote" on the tour bus. |
| Audioslave | Original Fire | Sentenced to continue being ultimate band for men who sport mullets. |
| Avenged Sevenfold | Bat Country | ??? |
| Backstreet Boys | Just Want You To Know | Sentenced to cease all attempts to increase their 15 minutes of fame. |
| Basement Jaxx | Where's Your Head At? | Sentenced to realize the "double X" in their name is as cool as a pair of uggs. |
| Beastie Boys | Ch-Check It Out | Sentenced to crimes against hair with Chad Kroeger. |
| Natasha Bedingfield | Unwritten | Sentenced to leave her next album "unwritten." |
| Beyoncé | Crazy in Love | Sentenced to have her legs registered as loaded weapons. |
| Beyoncé | Naughty Girl | ??? |
| Beyoncé | Ring The Alarm | Sentenced to stop threatening to "kick the court's ass". |
| Bow Wow feat. Ciara | Like You | Sentenced to use a booster seat when driving his Hummer. |
| Black Eyed Peas | Don't Phunk With My Heart | Sentenced to stop being so motherphunking terrible. |
| Black Eyed Peas | My Humps | Sentenced to death by label rejection. |
| Black Eyed Peas | Pump It | Sentenced to star in the video game "Grand Theft Talent". |
| blink-182 | Feeling This | ??? |
| blink-182 | First Date | Sentenced to realize their fake moustaches make them look cool. |
| blink-182 | I Miss You | ??? |
| Bloodhound Gang | Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo | Sentenced to headline Jock Jams 17. |
| Chris Brown | Gimme That | ??? |
| Chris Brown | Say Goodbye | Sentenced to continue being more successful than you'll ever be. |
| Chris Brown | Yo | Sentenced to stop stalking and just buy love like other R&B singers. |
| Bubba Sparxxx feat. Ying Yang Twins | Ms. New Booty | Sentenced to 200 hours of community service in the "Save the Booty Foundation". |
| Busta Rhymes | I Love My Chick | Sentenced to stop making videos that look like a Steven Segal action flick. |
| Busta Rhymes | Touch It | Sentenced to a cage fight with MC Hammer and The Vengaboys. |
| Mariah Carey | Don't Forget About Us | Sentenced to stop kissing in soccer nets in order to avoid getting hit by a soccer ball. |
| Mariah Carey | Heartbreaker | ??? |
| Mariah Carey | Shake It Off | Sentenced to appear in People Magazine's "Sexiest Women Under 70" issue. |
| Mariah Carey | We Belong Together | Sentenced to a career arc similar to that of Eric Roberts. |
| Mariah Carey feat. Snoop Dogg | Say Somethin' | Sentenced to be a little less sexy, a little more 45 candles... or however old she is... |
| Cassie | Long Way 2 Go | Sentenced to 3 months at the Ashlee Simpson Institue For The Craptastic. |
| Cham feat. Alicia Keys | Ghetto Story Pt. 2 | Sentenced to keep on co-opting other people's fame until someone can begin to co-opt his. |
| Chamillionaire | Grown And Sexy | Sentenced to convert his video into a movie called "Robot Supermodels On A Plane". |
| Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone | Ridin' | ??? |
| Ciara | Oh | ??? |
| Kelly Clarkson | Behind These Hazel Eyes | Sentenced to thank God she was never eaten by Ruben Studdard. |
| Kelly Clarkson | Since U Been Gone | Sentenced to continue to be a hotter chick than Clay Aiken. |
| Kelly Clarkson | Walk Away | Sentenced to "walk away" from the music industry. |
| Cobra Starship | Snakes on a Plane (Bring It) | Sentenced to return to the sucky bands from which they came. |
| Coldplay | The Hardest Part | Sentenced to have no plans for their next video. |
| Coldplay | Talk | Sentenced to cease on having the always baked Prince Harry direct their videos. |
| Creed | My Sacrifice | Sentenced to do a rosary for every stripper. |
| Culture Club | Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? | Sentenced to realize the irony in the progression of their career from making trash to picking up trash. |
| D12 | My Band | Sentenced to perform on the Carrot Top tour. |
| D4L | Laffy Taffy | Sentenced to spank their Super Soakers on their own time. |
| The Darkness | I Believe In A Thing Called Love | Sentenced to 3 years at the fashion reformatory for the chronically British. |
| The Darkness | Is it Just Me? | Sentenced to stop brushing their teeth with Coke. |
| The Darkness | One Way Ticket | ??? |
| Shawn Desman | Let's Go | Sentenced to return the rental sports car. |
| Diddy | Come to Me | Sentenced to team up with Mr. T for a duet called "Diddy The Fool". |
| Hilary Duff | So Yesterday | ??? |
| Hilary Duff | Wake Up | Sentenced to go to London and party with Britain's royal bad boy, Prince Harry. |
| Hilary and Haylie Duff | Our Lips Are Sealed | ??? |
| Duran Duran | Wild Boys | Sentenced to admit that, at some point, they got it on with your mother. |
| Eminem | Ass Like That | Sentenced to have a slinky up his ass. |
| Eminem | Just Lose It | ??? |
| Eminem | Stan | Sentenced to throw away all of his unsent Vanilla Ice fanmail. |
| Eminem | When I'm Gone | Sentenced to lighten the f*@k up already! |
| Evanescence | Call Me When You're Sober | Sentenced to "call me when they're better". |
| Evanescence | Everybody's Fool | Sentenced to stop making music that sounds like a Leon's commercial. |
| Fall Out Boy | A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me | Sentenced to stop using The Simpsons as inspiration of Jebus sake! |
| Fall Out Boy | Dance, Dance | ??? |
| Fall Out Boy | Sugar, We're Goin Down | Sentenced to the more appropriate Simpsons-inspired name of "Worst Band Ever". |
| Fatboy Slim | The Rockafeller Skank | Sentenced to reveal that in the title "Rockafeller Skank", the word "Rockafeller" stands for "Paris Hilton is a". |
| Fergie | London Bridge | Sentenced to Google the phrase "Shameless Gwen Stefani impersonator" and see what turns up. |
| The Flaming Lips | The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song | Sentenced to attract women more their age group by taping some Metamucil to their privates. |
| Foo Fighters | Everlong | Sentenced to never again wear wigs in their future videos. |
| Foo Fighters | Learn to Fly | Sentenced to leave the fake moustaches and marijuana to Kevin Federline. |
| Foo Fighters | Resolve | Sentenced to realize that even Mr. T pities them. |
| Fountains Of Wayne | Stacy's Mom | Sentenced to speed up production on their new song, "Stacy's Grandmom". |
| Franz Ferdinand | Do You Want To | Sentenced to just get it over with and have sex with each other. |
| Franz Ferdinand | Walk Away | Sentenced to keep making threatre students look tough. |
| G-Unit | Stunt 101 | Setenced to remember that "Too many cooks spoil the rap song". |
| Gnarls Barkley | Crazy | Sentenced to keep making videos that deliver a hallucinogenic contact buzz. |
| Gnarls Barkley | Gone Daddy Gone | Sentenced to be the first video reviewed on the newly created spin-off "Stoners On Trial". |
| Good Charlotte | Boys and Girls | ??? |
| Good Charlotte | I Just Wanna Live | Sentenced to solitary confinement for their own safety. |
| Tom Green | Teachers Suck | Sentenced to a school with Weird Al Yankovic. |
| Green Day | Jesus of Suburbia | Sentenced to cease production on their next video, "Moses of Suburbia". |
| Green Day | Wake Me Up When September Ends | Sentenced to make a less depressing video about subjects such as rainbows and candy. |
| hellogoodbye | Here (In Your Arms) | Sentenced to keep on sounding like a mix of Weezer and Cher. |
| Paris Hilton | Nothing In This World | Sentenced to have a Video On Trial viewer add her picture to the Wikipedia entry for "loser". |
| Hinder | Lips of an Angel | Sentenced to realize the irony that "Lips of an Angel" is being sung by the lips of an a**hole. |
| Hoobastank | The Reason | Sentenced to include an album advisory sticker with a warning that their lyrics may offend all. |
| Enrique Iglesias | Addicted | Sentenced to keep on giving old people an alternative to "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". |
| Enrique Iglesias | Hero | ??? |
| Michael Jackson | Thriller | Sentenced to nothing...His lawyers were too good. |
| Jay-Z | 99 Problems | Sentenced to death by firing squad. |
| Jibbs | Chain Hang Low | Sentenced to ask Santa for a gold record. |
| JoJo | Too Little, Too Late | Sentenced to celebrate her 16th birthday amidst declining album sales and a surplus of unsold concert t-shirts. |
| Kelis | Milkshake | Sentenced to 5 years of chest arrest. |
| Kelis feat. Too $hort | Bossy | Sentenced to change nothing...Well, with the possible exception of "everything". |
| R. Kelly | Trapped In The Closet Pt. 1 | Sentenced to buy a Coleman stove for those extended closet stays. |
| The Killers | All These Things That I've Done | Sentenced to come up with an original thought. |
| The Killers | Mr. Brightside | Sentenced to hire Carrot Top for their next video. |
| The Killers | When You Were Young | Sentenced to stop being more "British" than Prince Harry having sex with a custard scone. |
| KoRn | Freak on a Leash | Sentenced to stop making videos that look like the new Garfield movie. |
| KoRn | Twisted Transistor | ??? |
| Nick Lachey | What's Left of Me | Sentenced to rejoin with the rest of his 98 Degrees bandmates on the D-list. |
| Cyndi Lauper | Girls Just Want To Have Fun | Sentenced to cease production on her new single, "Girls Just Want To Chillax". |
| Avril Lavigne | Complicated | Sentenced to stop making videos that look like a Pizza Pocket commercial. |
| LeToya | Torn | Sentenced to sing about stuff that people actually care about, such as Cool Ranch Doritos and dog robots. |
| Limp Bizkit | Behind Blue Eyes | Sentenced to an eternity in rock and rap hell. |
| Lindsay Lohan | Confessions of a Broken Heart | Sentenced to buy a new father. |
| Lindsay Lohan | Over | Sentenced to go from acting and singing to early retirement. |
| Lindsay Lohan | Rumors | Sentenced to spend more time on her boobs and less time in the booth. |
| Jennifer Lopez | Get Right | Sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences. |
| Ludacris | Get Back | ??? |
| Ludacris feat. Pharrell | Money Maker | Sentenced to buy another item you can't afford and then tell you all about how awesome it is. |
| Ludacris | Number One Spot | Sentenced to let Mini-Me just be a TV Commercial. |
| Ludacris | Splash Waterfalls | ??? |
| Ludacris | Stand Up | Sentenced to stop making videos that make him look like a prop comic. |
| Madonna | Hung Up | Sentenced to stop making dance music before another Vogue invasion. |
| Madonna | Papa Don't Preach | Sentenced to continue being the sexiest 70-year old on the planet. |
| Madonna | Sorry | Sentenced to re-invent herself. |
| Maroon 5 | She Will Be Loved | Sentenced to death by an alien or a dinosaur. |
| Massari | Be Easy | Sentenced to cease production on the video where he pretends to own the Space Shuttle. |
| Jesse McCartney | Beautiful Soul | Sentenced to put a "may cause drowsiness" sticker on future albums. |
| Metallica | St. Anger | Sentenced to admit that "St. Anger" is actually the patron saint of bad music. |
| Christina Milian | Dip It Low | Sentenced to switch to using watercolor paints when engaging in sexual activity. |
| Missy Elliot | Lose Control | Sentenced to be buried alive until she turns blue. |
| Missy Elliot | Pass That Dutch | Sentenced to do a duet with Cheech and Chong. |
| Missy Elliot | Work It | Sentenced to warn potheads that her videos may "harsh their mellow". |
| Moby | We Are All Made of Stars | Sentenced to eat a rogaine sandwich. |
| My Chemical Romance | Ghost Of You | Sentenced to have their lunch money stolen by bullies. |
| My Chemical Romance | Helena | Sentenced to be prominently featured on the playlist for late night DND sessions. |
| My Chemical Romance | I'm Not Okay (I Promise) | Sentenced to lighten the Hell up. |
| My Chemical Romance | Welcome To The Black Parade | Sentenced to stop forcing Video On Trial to come up with new ways to call them nerds. |
| Nelly | Batter Up | Sentenced to do a video about bobsledding. |
| Nelly | Hot In Here | Sentenced to apologize for making pit stains hot. |
| Nelly | Grillz | ??? |
| Nelly feat. Christina Aguilera | Tilt Ya Head Back | Sentenced to stop giving "The Depression" a bad name. |
| Ne-Yo | When You're Mad | Sentenced to a vow of a life of abstinence and to make a public apology. |
| No Doubt | Ex-Girlfriend | ??? |
| No Doubt | Hella Good | ??? |
| No Doubt | It's My Life | Sentenced to pray really hard that Gwen returns to the band. |
| NSync | Bye Bye Bye | ??? |
| NSync | I Drive Myself Crazy | Sentenced to be more crazy by sending Justin Timberlake to the Backstreet Boys and AJ into NSync. |
| NSync | It's Gonna Be Me | Sentenced to learn about Justin Timberlake. |
| Obie Trice | Got Some Teeth | Sentenced to dental sensitivity training. |
| OutKast | Morris Brown | Sentenced to keep on staying together by not playing together. |
| OutKast | Roses | ??? |
| OutKast | The Way You Move | Sentenced to visit a real mechanic & suffer through the residual overcharging & smell of day-old farts. |
| Kelly Osbourne | Papa Don't Preach | Sentenced to stop making songs that make people preach for an Ozzy Osbourne album. |
| Panic! At the Disco | But It's Better If You Do | Sentenced to google the word "creativity". |
| Panic! At the Disco | I Write Sins Not Tragedies | ??? |
| Panic! At the Disco | Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off | Sentenced to realize that with the exception of nothing, Panic! At The Disco are Fall Out Boy. |
| Papa Roach | Scars | Sentenced to continue rockin' the iPods in white-boy frat houses everywhere. |
| Sean Paul | We Be Burnin' | Sentenced to stop "we-be-burnin'" up the atmosphere by getting rid of his Hummer. |
| P!nk | Don't Let Me Get Me | Sentenced to give up the anti-corporate fight and get a tattoo of Mickey Mouse holding a Nike swoosh. |
| P!nk | Just Like a Pill | ??? |
| P!nk | Stupid Girls | Sentenced to specifically explain how she is any different from Lindsay Lohan. |
| P!nk | Trouble | Sentenced to 3 months in a country jail. |
| P!nk | U + Ur Hand | Sentenced to go back to imitating sexy celebs. |
| P!nk | Who Knew | Sentenced to continue making fun of her stupid girls, but without her stupid curls. |
| Eric Prydz | Call On Me | ??? |
| Puddle of Mudd | She Hates Me | Sentenced to show any impact they have made. |
| Pussycat Dolls feat. Busta Rhymes | Don't Cha | Sentenced to be forever listened to on mute. |
| Pussycat Dolls feat. will.i.am | Beep | Sentenced to join the Backstreet Boys and call themselves "Pussycat Dolls With Balls." |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Go With the Flow | ??? |
| Queens of the Stone Age | No One Knows | Sentenced to name their next song "No One Listens". |
| The Raconteurs | Steady, As She Goes | Sentenced to race against Jack's other 26 bands. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | Can't Stop | ??? |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | Dani California | Sentenced to have their next video directed by Kevin Federline. |
| S Club 7 | S Club Party | Sentenced to forever answer the question, "What does the 'S' stand for?" |
| Seether | Truth | Sentenced to set up a cage match between two other fictional characters: A unicorn and their musical talent. |
| Shaggy | It Wasn't Me | Sentenced to heavy rotation on your dad's iPod. |
| Shakira | Don't Bother | ??? |
| Shakira | Whenever, Wherever | Sentenced to continue being the female version of David Hasselhoff. |
| Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean | Hips Don't Lie | Sentenced to realize that if her "Hips Don't Lie", they're probably saying that her song sucks. |
| Simple Plan | Shut Up! | ??? |
| Ashlee Simpson | Invisible | Sentenced to recognise that you can't pick your sister, you can't pick your nose, and you can't pick your sister's nose. |
| Ashlee Simpson | La La | Sentenced to wear a shock collar in her next video. |
| Ashlee Simpson | L.O.V.E. | Sentenced to create an award show for her fellow idea stealers called "The Grabbies". |
| Ashlee Simpson | Shadow | ??? |
| Jessica Simpson | A Public Affair | Sentenced to stop hogging all the hot girls in Hollywood and leave some for Nick Lachey. |
| Jessica Simpson | These Boots Are Made for Walkin' | Sentenced to fifty slaps on the ass by a drunken hillbilly. |
| Jessica Simpson | With You | ??? |
| Snoop Dogg feat. Justin Timberlake | Signs | Sentenced to keep the videos made in Las Vegas in Las Vegas. |
| Britney Spears | Do Somethin' | Sentenced to life with Kevin Federline. |
| Britney Spears | Everytime | Sentenced to realize her dream and find Kevin Federline a job at the Cheerios factory. |
| Britney Spears | Lucky | Sentenced to stop manufacturing Federlines. |
| Britney Spears | My Prerogative | Sentenced to forbid her newborn son from using his father as a role model. |
| Britney Spears | Toxic | Sentenced to remove the dishwasher from the front lawn of her Malibu home. |
| Britney Spears feat. Madonna | Me Against the Music | Sentenced to stop singing and resume face-sucking. |
| Gwen Stefani | Hollaback Girl | Sentenced to stay 400 meters away from any Harajuku Girls. |
| Gwen Stefani | Luxurious | Sentenced to pay royalties to the year 1999 everytime she wears lip liner. |
| Gwen Stefani | What You Waiting For? | Sentenced to return to the sucky band from where she came. |
| The Strokes | Juicebox | Sentenced to take a cold shower together. |
| T-Pain feat. Mike Jones | I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper) | Sentenced to remember that on a date with a stripper, the two-drink minimum still applies. |
| Tenacious D | Tribute | Sentenced to keep on fat guy rockin'. |
| Terror Squad feat. Fat Joe | Lean Back | Sentenced to stop eating his bandmates. |
| Justin Timberlake | Cry Me A River | Sentenced to write another song about his relationship with Britney, this time called "Dodged a Major Bullet!" |
| Justin Timberlake | Like I Love You | Sentenced to continue being the least fat ex-member of NSync. |
| Justin Timberlake | SexyBack | Sentenced to meet women the normal celebrity way: Through publicists. |
| The Transplants | Gangstas and Thugs | Sentenced to stop transplanting rap with punk. |
| Twista | Slow Jamz | Sentenced to stop making songs that make men want to play the skin flute. |
| Twisted Sister | We're Not Gonna Take It | Sentenced to rent their band name out to Ashlee Simpson. |
| Bonnie Tyler | Total Eclipse Of The Heart | Sentenced to ask Weird Al to stop recording the song "Total Eclipse Of The Fart". |
| The Used | All That I've Got | Sentenced to appear in the "used" CD bin shorty after their release. |
| Usher | Burn | Sentenced to take a dip in his awesome flaming pool. |
| Usher | Caught Up | Sentenced to the school of "Retro Fashion". |
| Van Halen | Hot For Teacher | Sentenced to try and remember just one moment - any moment - from the 1980s. |
| Velvet Revolver | Fall To Pieces | Sentenced to stop giving hardcore drugs a bad name. |
| Weezer | Beverly Hills | Sentenced to an extremely juvenile detention centre. |
| Weezer | Perfect Situation | ??? |
| Weezer | We Are All On Drugs | Sentenced to have sand kicked in their face by a bully. |
| Weird Al Yankovic | White & Nerdy | Sentenced to admit that he looks like the albino version of Dave Navarro. |
| Kanye West | Diamonds From Sierra Leone | ??? |
| Kanye West | Jesus Walks | Sentenced to be stopped from making the album, "Jesus Surfs". |
| Kanye West | The New Workout Plan | Sentenced to remind Anna Nicole Smith that this is not "The New Pork-Out Plan". |
| Kanye West | Touch the Sky | Sentenced to work in NASA to orbit his ego. |
| Kanye West feat. Adam Levine | Heard 'Em Say | Sentenced to have their relationship annulled. |
| Wham! | Careless Whisper | Sentenced to stop hanging out at truckstops with Lance Bass. |
| The White Stripes | The Denial Twist | Sentenced to make at least one video with a Hummer and a jacuzzi. |
| Wolfmother | Joker & The Thief | Sentenced to shut their dumb faces cuz Zeppelin rules!!! |
| Tony Yayo feat. G-Unit | I Know You Don't Love Me | ??? |
| Ying Yang Twins | Wait (The Whisper Song) | Sentenced to pipe up about where they will put their Yings and Yangs. |
[edit] Trivia
- Almost every guest on the show has appeared as "themselves", but there have been a few notable exceptions:
- Sean Cullen appeared as a "Stand-in for Ron Sparks" in season two during one video (after Ron said that he couldn't stand it), "Smack That" by Akon.
- Rudolph Schmidt appeared as his rock-and-roll comedian character "Hugh Phukovsky".
- Ron Sparks appears so frequently on Video on Trial that in newer episodes he is listed as various fake occupations instead of just "comedian". He has been billed as such things as (in order of use):
- a handsome bachelor
- a movie star
- a hand model
- a member of the Justice League
- the president of the Shawn Desman Fan Club (an in-joke, as Ron often makes fun of Desman)
- a Man About Town
- a Ghost Whisperer
- a haberdasher
- a vampire slayer
- the inventor of techno music (coincidentally during an episode featuring a techno music video)
- a Crocodile Hunter
- Hugh Phukovsky pulled all the "Video on Trial" listings from his MySpace page, claiming "I gave those f***ers some GOLD!" that they cut out with "humourless editing".
- The sentence for Paris Hilton's "Nothing In This World" video was to "have a Video On Trial viewer add her picture to the Wikipedia entry for 'loser.'" Although there is no such Wikipedia page for "loser," rather just a disambiguation page, fans of the show subsequently added her photo to Wiki pages that the disambiguation page led to.
- Oddly enough, the episode containing this verdict aired shorty after a Wikipedia entry covering all of the show's verdicts was considered for deletion.
- Musician Jully Black actually critiqued one of her own videos, "5x Love" for a moment at the end of an episode in which she was a juror (keeping with the tone with the show, she didn't go easy on it).
- The Bloodhound Gang and Weird Al Yankovic are the only two cast members (so far) to have appeared on the show both as jurors and artists in their accused videos ("Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" and "White & Nerdy", respectively).
- Sunsilk has parodied the show in a series of commercials for their hair care products. The spoof is called "Hair On Trial" and features frequent VOT cast member Trevor Boris as the juror endorsing the product. Not surprisingly, the commercials air frequently during airings of the show.
[edit] Most Accused Artists
Justin Timberlake has had the most videos featured on the show so far, with seven in total (three as a solo artist, three with 'N Sync, and one collaboration with Snoop Dogg).
Four other artists have been featured six times. They are:
- P!nk
- Britney Spears (five of her own, and one collaboration with Madonna)
- Gwen Stefani (three of her own, and three with No Doubt)
- 50 Cent (four of his own, and two with G-Unit, including one collaboration)
[edit] Quotes
- Ron Sparks - I once saw Liberace and Elton John 69 each other in the back of a limo, and that video is still the gayest thing I've ever seen. (on "Just Want You to Know" by the Backstreet Boys)
- Ron Sparks - I'm not gonna say too much about this video, because I'm friends with blink-182, but I will say one thing...Shawn Desman sucks. (on "I Miss You" by blink-182)
- Fraser Young - Watch out Old Navy, watch out Orange Julius...It's about to get all complicated in this bi-yotch! (on "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne)
- David Kerr - What is up with that dance? I liked him better when he was on smack! (on "Fall to Pieces" by Velvet Revolver)
- David Kerr - Am I the only one who's not threatened by breakdancing anymore? It's kind of like "Oooh, look at me, I did a headspin! DISS! Take that, Christina!" (on "Can't Hold Us Down" by Christina Aguilera)
- Nikki Payne - She wrote "Do Somethin'" for her husband. She's gonna follow it up with a song called "Why Don't You Get A Job". (on "Do Somethin'" by Britney Spears)
- Ron Sparks - If I tried to put my thumbs down any further, I would mess my pants. And then my pants would be full of Hinder. (on "Lips of an Angel" by Hinder)
